Necktie-clasp.



no.6ao,6oo. Patented Aug. I3, 4901.

. n. A. JONES.

NEGKTIE CLASP.

(Application filed Nov. 21, 1900.

(No Model.)

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UNITED TATEES RUEL A. JONES, OF STANFORD, KENTUCKY.

NECKTIE=CLAS P.

FJPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 680,600, dated August 13, 1901.

Application filed November 21, 1900. Serial No. 317,194. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RUEL A. JONES, resid-.

ing at Stanford, in the county of Lincoln and State of Kentucky, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Necktie-Clasps, of which the following is a specification. My invention is an improvement in necktie-clasps designed for securing the ends of a necktie made in two sections, as shown in Figure 1 in the drawings; and the invention consists in certain novel constructions, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is an elevation in perspective of a necktie the ends of whose sections are secured by my improved clasp. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the clasp securing one section of the necktie and the other section being released from the clasp, and Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively detail sections on about line 3 3 and 4: at of Fig. 1.

The clasp is shown as composed of two plates A and B, which are fitted face to face and provided in one edge at a point about midway between their ends with coincident notches which form notch O to fit beneath the collar-button at the back of the neck, and the plates are secured firmly together at their middle, preferably by means of lugs or supports D and D, formed on one of the plates and bent over the other plate, as will be understood from Figs. 1 and 4. By preference the lug D is arranged at the base of the button-notch O, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4. At their outer ends the plates A and B are sprung normally apart, so they will receive between them the end of the necktie-section, as will be understood from Fig. 2, and the inner side of one or both of the plates may be roughened, as seen at E in Fig. 1, which may preferably be accomplished by indenting the plate from the outer side thereof, as is best shown in Fig. 1. For pressing the ends of the plates together upon the necktiesection I employ slides F in the form of loops fitted over the two plates and movable from the position shown in the right in Fig. 2 to that shown in the left in the same figure, when it is desired to clamp the necktie-section between the plates A and B. On one of the plates, at its outer end, I provide outwardly-extending projections G, which may be formed by indenting the plate from the the projections limit the outward movement of the slides.

In Fig. 3 I show necktie-sections H,clamped between the opposite ends of the plates A and B, the necktie being ready for use, as shown in Fig. 1. It is obvious that when the free ends of the section become worn, soiled, or wrinkled the sections maybe readily detached from the clasp, reversed end for end, and again secured to the clasp, bringing fresh ends into use. Also the fitting of the tie-sections adjacent to the clasp against the smooth collar of the wearer operates in a measure to smooth out or iron out the Wrinkles, so the tie will be again ready for use in afew days. I thus provide a necktie with four wearing ends instead of two, as is the case with the ordinary tie, and at the same time provide a device which cooperates in securing the necktie in proper position at the back of the neck.

It will also be understood that when desired one can make a necktie in sections with different colors at the ends thereof. Thus, for instance, the sections might be blue at one end and black at the other, and the user could readily adjust the tie to furnish a blue or black tie, as desired.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As an improved article of manufacture, the herein-described necktie-clasp, composed of two plates fitted face to face and provided midway between their ends with coincident notches which jointly form a recess to receive the shank of the button at the back of shank of the back collar-button and having their ends sprung normally apart and provided on their outer sides at such ends with projections, and slides for compressing such ends, the projections being arranged to stop the slides when the ends are held apart by an interposed necktie-section and to permit the passage of such slides when the said ends are pressed directly together all substantially as set forth.

RUEL A. JONES. Witnesses:

R. E. HALE, W. H. WEAREN. 

